These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

What beauty could be your life’s mountain peak which you could climb all the way up?

Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So.

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.